San Francisco officials have shut down a guaranteed-income program exclusively offered to trans-identified individuals.

The city’s Board of Supervisors voted 7-3 last month to end the taxpayer-funded initiative, halting any future projects with the same eligibility criteria.

The city agreed not to create a similar initiative with the same eligibility rules, according to an agreement to settle a taxpayer lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch on the grounds that the program contravened the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution.

The settlement, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, also includes a payment of $3,250 in attorney’s fees and costs. Judicial Watch, a Washington-based conservative legal organization, stated that the lawsuit, Phillips et al. v. Breed et al., was filed in January 2024, naming Mayor London Breed, City Treasurer Jose Cisneros, the director of the city’s Office of Transgender Initiatives and City Administrator Carmen Chu as defendants.

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